The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
What the Newspapers Say of Men and
Women of More or Less Fame,


What the Newspapers Say of Men and
Women of More or Less Fame.
Premier CrieDi, of Italy, was common
soldier in Garibaldi' g GLORIOUS thousand. .
The latest man mentioned in the un.
tran1mele1 west as a successor to Mr.
Beecher is ''Sam' Jones. By the way,
''Sam" says he is not a ''divine,'' but 9
sshuman.'
Christine Nilsson's husband, Senior dc
Casa Miranda, is short and stout, and has
round dark eyes and queer smile He
has intelligence and charming manners.
They are living handsomely in London,
where the countess gives many pleasant
entertainments. She dresses carelessly
now and in bad taste.
A. Bronson Alcott has kept a journal
ever since he was a boy, and, as he was
born in 1897, and has known intimately
nearly every man of distinction in New
England from that time to the present,
it ought to be most interesting reading.
This journal fills sixty volumes of neatly
written manuscript, which will be given
to the world after his death. Mr. Alcott
is still helpless invalid, and spends most
of his time ON couch asleep OF looking
over his books.-The Argonaut.
DR.. ]. Haney Lowell, of Philadelphia,
is pronounced vegetarian, believing that
eating meat Is the cause of untold evils.
He even thinks that vegetarianism is the
best remedy for intemperance. His theory
is that flesh eating men have an abnormal
taste for drink, and that if men Will only
confine themselves to vegetable food the
desire for drink will be antagonized.
''No man," he says, ''who eats a pound
of macaroni daily will become drunkard.
What we want is a temperance vegetarian
restaurant, where young men may be
banqueted on macaroni, beans and rice. u
The empress of Austria is almost as
ardent mOuntaineer as she was horse
woman, and during her stay at Ischl
went in for a great deal of mountain
climbing. One day, writes cable cor,
respondent of The World, she made the
ascent of the Gethfeld, and according to
her usual custom took with her but q
small posse of attendants. When hall
way up a snow storm came on, and the
empress and her party were st that mo.
ment going along narrow path little
better than mere ledge, which wound
round the face of the mountain. To ad
vance was impossible and to return was
equally dangerous. So the empress haG
to cling to the face of tho precipice in the
binding snow storm for the space of more
than an hour. At the expiration of thai
time the storm abated and an attempt
was made to descend. A relief party
which had been sent up from Ischl, wher
once the position of affairs became known
finally rescued the imperial party.
Jules Verne, the famous novelist, live:
at Amiens, France, that ancient capital Of
Picardy, which is on the Northern rail
way, about ninety miles from Paris
Amiens is charming old city, through
whose narrow streets the river Sommt
winds eleven times. Its quaint houses
are covered with tiles; its citadel wa
built by Henri ~ and its cathedral il tn,
| Thirteenth century. Verne lives in /;
large handsome mansion, surrounded by
well kept grounds, and is actively a
work, writing two books each year. Ell,
is SO years of age and was educated fo
the law. His habits are methodical, ant
the early morning is his time for work
He goes to bed at s o'clock, and is up 8,
early that the task of the day is Finished
! by 1 o'clock. The novelist is not grea
| traveller, as his books would indicate; h
uses large maps and is close student o
geography. His dates, he says, give hin
more trouble than any other part of hi
work.